IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Klinesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957PA025004
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA025004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 143
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43486
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.8397222
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5983333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 1/2 mi S of Forest Inn; E of Rt 13016 midway between power poles and 20' NW of center line of power line.
  • Map Unit: MoB2—Montevallo channery silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, moderately eroded
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA025—Carbon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA025—Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-G5—Palmerton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.G. Loughry, W.J. Steputis, G.V. Fisher, R.P. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Klinesville
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Klinesville
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1957 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAST

    FRAGA

    PRUNU

    RHUS

    RUFL

    Datura stramonium

    Fragaria

    Prunus

    Rhus

    Rubus flagellaris

    jimsonweed

    strawberry

    plum

    sumac

    northern dewberry

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—25

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    34

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    308

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    95

    1150

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 35 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01037. "About 35% coarse shale and sandstone fragments. Thickness ranges fro 3 to 7""."
    BC—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior and dusky red (10R 3/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01038. "About 30% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 4 to 9"". 5% by volume of stones larger than 3 inches diameter excluded from PDH sample. Clay films on stones also."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312464; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312464
    C1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior extremely channery silty clay loam; friable; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01039. "Coatings on stone fragments up to 24x8x4"" which make up about 85% of the total volume; some iron and manganese coatings on stones; thickness ranges from 1 to 10""; 30% by volume of stones larger than 3"" discarded from PDH sample."
    C2—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior silt loam, clay; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01040. About 98% of this horizon is weak red (10R 4/2) stones. They are coated with weak red (10R 5/3) silt and clay.